What are the dietary taboos for children with mumps? What diet should children with mumps eat?

Mumps is more common in winter and spring, but it can occur throughout the year. People of any age can suffer from this disease, but it is more common in children. It is recommended that children with mumps eat more heat-clearing foods, and eat liquid and semi-liquid foods that are easy to chew and digest. They can eat more fruits and vegetables to supplement nutrition and disperse nodules and clear heat.

Foods that children with mumps should not eat:

1. Chicken: It is warm in nature and sweet in taste. Although it can warm the middle and replenish qi, people with mumps are suffering from heat toxins, so they should eat light food and avoid greasy and stagnant warming foods such as chicken. "Dietary Notes" also believes that it "can cause wind and liver fire". Therefore, people with mumps should not eat it during the onset of the disease.

2. Carp: It is pungent in nature and sweet in taste. Although it is a freshwater fish, it is considered as an inducing food by both the general public and doctors in ancient and modern times. Meng Shen said: "Dysentery after epidemic diseases and chronic diseases should not be eaten."

3. Peach: It is hot in nature, sweet and sour in taste. Eating too much peach can easily cause internal heat. As stated in "Illustrated Book of Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Eating too much peach can stimulate the spleen and increase heat, causing sores and boils." Mumps in children is caused by evil heat and fire toxicity, which is a symptom of heat syndrome. Peaches are hot in nature and increase fire, so they should be avoided.

4. Pepper: It is very hot and spicy. Wang Mengying believed that "eating too much pepper can cause fire and dryness, consume qi and damage yin". Mumps is also a symptom of heat. Do not take pepper, a spicy stimulant that can cause fire and heat.

5. Yellow croaker: Also known as stonehead fish, according to previous experience, this is a food that can cause illness and promote the development of sores. Children with mumps should not eat it.

6. Mutton: Although it can replenish qi and nourish deficiency, people with mumps suffer from a contagious fever and swelling disease caused by the mumps virus, so they should eat light food instead of warm food, and cold food instead of warm food. Mutton warms up the fire, replenishes qi and nourishes deficiency, so it should not be eaten, otherwise it will increase the disease and aggravate the condition.

7. Clove: It is the main ingredient of the five-spice powder commonly used by the people. It is warm in nature, spicy in taste, and easy to cause heat. Children with mumps, parotid swelling, pain, and fever should avoid eating cloves.

8. Hairtail: It is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the category of fishy food. It is contraindicated for people with various diseases. Children with mumps should not eat it.

9. Longan meat: Longan meat. It is warm in nature and sweet in taste. Ancient doctors and the general public believed that it can help to cure the evils of heat and phlegm. Mumps is caused by fire poison, so it should be avoided.

What foods are suitable for children with mumps to eat more:

1. Winter melon: It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and can clear away heat, detoxify, and eliminate phlegm. "Rihuazi Bencao" says that it can "eliminate heat, toxins, and carbuncle." From the perspective of pathological properties, mumps is a disease of "heat, toxins, and carbuncle." Therefore, it is most appropriate to eat more winter melon during mumps.

2. Honeysuckle: It is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and is particularly good at clearing away heat and detoxifying. People also often use honeysuckle decoction to treat mumps, measles, prickly heat and other pediatric diseases. Therefore, for children with mumps, it is best to use 15-30 grams of honeysuckle decoction instead of tea.

3. Bitter melon: commonly known as balsam pear. It is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It can clear away summer heat, purge fire and resolve knots, quench thirst and detoxify. Shengshengbian says it can "eliminate evil heat". It is especially suitable for children suffering from mumps in summer.

4. Mung bean: It is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It is an ideal food and medicine product for clearing away heat and detoxification, purging fire and relieving summer heat. It is particularly effective in relieving wind-disaster heat and toxins of mumps. The skin of mung bean, also called mung bean skin, can also relieve heat and toxins. "Sui Xi Ju Diet" says that it "clears wind and heat and reduces swelling." Therefore, it is also suitable for patients with mumps. As for mung bean sprouts and mung bean powder, they are both cool in nature and have the effect of clearing heat and detoxification. They are also suitable for children with mumps.

5. Adzuki bean: It is mild in nature and can reduce swelling, detoxify, harmonize blood, and discharge pus. The Materia Medica says that it can "eliminate heat, toxins, and carbuncle swelling". When children suffer from mumps and swelling, it is advisable to drink red bean soup frequently, which is quite effective. If red bean is applied externally, the effect is also good.

6. Spinach: cool in nature, sweet in taste. Huang Gongxiu, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, pointed out: "It can dispel heat and alcohol poisoning, and treat heat because of cold. Since spinach has a cold smell, it should be taken by those who suffer from carbuncle, swelling and poisoning caused by alcohol and dampness." It can be seen that children with mumps are affected by wind-heat and heat poisoning, so it is suitable to eat it.

7. Radish: It is cool in nature and can resolve phlegm and heat, and relieve heat toxins. Children suffering from mumps should wash raw radish and mash it into juice to drink, or they can also drink fresh radish decoction.

8. Loofah: It is cool in nature, sweet in taste, and has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying. It is suitable for children with heat-toxic diseases, such as mumps, swollen and painful swelling, measles, chickenpox, and unidentified swelling.

Diet therapy suitable for children with mumps

【Silverflower Herbal Tea】

Recipe: 60 grams of fresh honeysuckle or 30 grams of dried honeysuckle.

Preparation method: Soak the honeysuckle in water, put it into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and boil for 3 minutes, remove the residue and take about 250 ml of soup.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies.

Usage: The above is the daily amount, taken as cold drink or herbal tea, divided into 2 to 3 times, for 3 to 5 consecutive days.

【Duck eggs stewed in rock sugar】

Recipe: 1 duck egg, 15 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: First, add rock sugar to boiling water to dissolve it. After the water cools down, add duck eggs, stir well, and steam them.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, strengthens the spleen and stimulates appetite.

Usage: Take twice a day for 1 week.

【Mung bean and cabbage soup】

Recipe: 100 grams of mung beans, 3 cabbage hearts.

Preparation method: First add appropriate amount of water to the mung beans and boil them. When they are almost cooked, add the cabbage heart and cook for another 20 minutes.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies.

Usage: Take the warm juice and drink it all at once, divided into two doses within 1 day until recovery.